chinampas

For the next 200 years, they built an ever-expanding island paradise by draining marshes, designing canals, and building artificial islands, called chinampas, for crop production.

More Than Blood and Brutality 2008

Surrounded by lakes, with little farming land to support their populations, the people built rafts with natural reeds (called chinampas), planted food crops on them, and left them to float in the lakes.

Colorado Springs Independent J. Adrian Stanley 2010

Surrounded by lakes, with little farming land to support their populations, the people built rafts with natural reeds (called chinampas), planted food crops on them, and left them to float in the lakes.

Colorado Springs Independent J. Adrian Stanley 2010

Stretching up from the edge of what remains of the lake system that once filled the Valley of Mexico, many residents still farm the artificial islets known as chinampas that were the basis of Mesoamerican agriculture in the area.

Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2009

In spite of the array of food offered to the emporer, and the variety of produce grown on the chinampas, or floating gardens, the Mexica stressed moderation in eating and drinking, drawing a clear line between satisfaction and gluttony.

The Mexican kitchen: a taste for all seasons 2009

In spite of the array of food offered to the emporer, and the variety of produce grown on the chinampas, or floating gardens, the Mexica stressed moderation in eating and drinking, drawing a clear line between satisfaction and gluttony.

The Mexican kitchen: a taste for all seasons 2009

They discovered that Teuchitlán had been, in fact, a metropolis of sorts, housing around 25,000 people fed by produce from hundreds of chinampas, small agricultural islands irrigated by an ingenious system of canals, dams and floodgates.

Guachimontones: unearthing a lost world near Teuchitlan, Jalisco 2009

In spite of the array of food offered to the emporer, and the variety of produce grown on the chinampas, or floating gardens, the Mexica stressed moderation in eating and drinking, drawing a clear line between satisfaction and gluttony.

The Mexican kitchen: a taste for all seasons 2009

They discovered that Teuchitlán had been, in fact, a metropolis of sorts, housing around 25,000 people fed by produce from hundreds of chinampas, small agricultural islands irrigated by an ingenious system of canals, dams and floodgates.

Guachimontones: unearthing a lost world near Teuchitlan, Jalisco 2009

From the chinampas, the floating gardens that were reached via canals, came fresh vegetables.

Early Fusion Food: Inside A Colonial Mexican Kitchen 2005